Another Reason to go VOTE

If the 13 scariest people don't scare you, then I don't know what will. Go vote so that we can get people like this out of our lives, behind bars, banished to another country, etc.

Things I learned today

This morning I was watching Faux News and learned some very interesting things:
1. Madonna is a horrible person because she should have adopted an American baby. But its alright for Angelina Jolie??? I don't get it.
2. Where you shop and what you drink is indicative of your political party. For example, Chevy driver, gun owners and bourbon drinkers tend to be Republican. Target shoppers and gin drinkers tend to be Democrats. So, I shop at Target and like bourbon (just the thought of gin makes me want to puke). What does that make me?
3. There is an epidemic of pet obesity. They've put out a challenge for you to teach your dog to give into the hype that you can never be too thin...
4. When assholes like Michael McCaul (my Republican representative that NEVER writes me back when I send him letters) start talking about securing the Mexican border (you know, the $4 billion fence that you can climb with a $10 ladder), it makes it much more tolerable to listen to Black Velvet Flag's "Institutionalized". Lounge Punk Rock really takes off the edge.

tags: Fox News Madonna Chevy Guns Bourbon Target Gin Republican Democrat Pet Obesity McCaul Black Velvet Flag

Euro Disney is Dirty

I don't really know what is up with that snowman character because we don't even have that in America. Dirty French snowman guy...

tags: Euro Disney

If you live in Texas

and you are registered to vote. Get out there and do it. Early voting started today. You have until November 3rd. Click here to find out where to go. I'm sure you will need to go grocery shopping before then. Why not vote and pick up a loaf of bread? It is as simple as that. The more people that vote, the less likely we will see Rick Perry back at the mansion. So take a friend.

Do you like Rick Perry?

I hope not. If you are like most Texans, you do not want him reelected. According to most polls, he is in the lead with about 30% give or take a few percentage points. That means that 70% or so of the people polled don't want him back. So what now? The democrats need to get it together. While Kinky's campaign has been fun and pointed out some serious flaws with the current political system in Texas, it is time to really think this out. Every person that votes for Kinky is voting for Perry. Let's face it, we live in a "red" state. If you add Carole Four Name's votes to Perry's that comes to roughly 50% of those polled. So, that means that Chris Bell, Kinky, the Libertarian candidate and undecided voters are basically splitting what's left. Hypothetically, if Kinky dropped out of the race Chris Bell would likely pick up a lot of his voters, putting him in a tight race with Rick Perry. So if Perry can push some of his voters to Carole Four Names and Chris Bell can convince the unconvinced and some of Kinky's followers we could have a new governor. Now it is up to Texans to show their disapproval of Rick Perry by going to the polls and voting. It only takes a few minutes of your time. Early voting is from October 23rd to November 3rd. Click here to find a polling location in your county. The general election is on November 7th.

tags: Texas Politics Vote Governor's Race Bell Perry Strayhorn Kinky

It's been fun Kinky

But it with less than a month to go, it is time to get serious about this governor's race. While he is undoubtedly the king of one liners, he has some pretty scary ideas about how to run Texas into the ground. He want martial law in the border towns to stop illegal immigration. He wants to put college kids on the board of regents to lower tuition costs. Now, I'm not saying that some of those old white guys don't need to get kicked off that board, but I don't think putting a bunch of 18 year olds in charge is going to make it any better. I watched the debate and he didn't have any realistic answers to solve the problems that face Texas and he spent most of his time talking about how politicians are many ticks or some such nonsense. I think I have to agree with Chris Bell, Kinky should drop out of the race because a vote for Kinky is a vote for Rick Perry. There is no run off, who ever gets the most votes wins.

tags: Texas Politics Governor Kinky Perry Bell

Not only is Rick Perry a liar

Just a few things about the current governor's performance during the debate:

Not only is Rick Perry a liar, but his hair is in serious decline. During the debate, he told lie after lie about all of the great things he did. My favorite was the $12,000 pay raise for the teachers of Texas. What a load of bullshit. The state will kick in between $1500 to $2000 and the school districts were told to kick in the other $10K. As for the alleged property tax reductions? Well that was made possible by creating new taxes and raising other taxes. Not really much of a tax break is it when it is just shuffled some where else. I also enjoyed his speech about the Trans-Texas Corridor. Despite his claims, the people of Texas never voted to approve the largest taking of private lands ever. But hell it is only 9000 square miles, so what the hell? Those farmers don't really need that land anyway to make a living. I think this was the point when I threw my shoe at the TV. So, if you like liars you should vote for this asshole because you are an asshole too.

tags: Texas Politics Governor Perry

No way granny

After watching the Gubernatorial Debate, MOTL informed me who Carole Four Names looks like. Granny goodness. The god of child abuse. Her power? Seducing children to the dark side. Voting for her is like voting for the dark side. Don't do it.

tags: Texas Politics Governor

Boycott South Dakota

Not that I really ever had much of a desire to go there, but I will never go to South Dakota. Lawmakers passed a law that basically outlaws all abortions and the governor signed it. However, there were enough sane people that signed a petition that will put it to the people's vote in November. Under this law there is not even an exception for rape victims or if the pregnancy threatens a mother life. Apparently, the only thing you can do under this law is take the morning after pill. Other wise you get to have an unwanted child. It is almost impossible to get an abortion in South Dakota. There is only one clinic that provides abortions and the only doctor that provides abortions flies in one day a week from Minnesota. Isn't that enough of a hurdle to making decisions about your own body? This is just one more reason to never go there. On the otherhand, maybe we can turn South Dakota into the Isreal of right wing christians. Can we make them all live there, then this wouldn't be a problem.

tags: South Dakota Sucks

Ssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Georgetown is set to pass a new noise ordinance that is way out of control. The limits for daytime is 63 decibels. A dishwasher or a normal conversation comes in at 60 decibels. The limit for night is 56 decibels. So does that mean that you can't run your dishwasher at night? And if the cops can hear a car stereo from outside of the car, they can issue a $100 ticket. Doesn't that sound like a fun place to live?

tags: Texas Georgetown Noise Ordinance

Alcoholism is an excuse for anything

So am I to believe that Mark Foley sent inappropriate emails to a 16 year old because he is an alcoholic? Get real, asshole. Or maybe because he was molested? Shouldn't that mean he knows how shitty it is to be buggered by old geezers. And now he is out of the closet. Great, so now closed minded idiots can say that all gay men are child molesters. Mark Foley is a disgrace to humanity and the GOP has aided and abetted his disgusting crimes against a child by covering it up for a year. What ever happened to the GOP's push for family values? What a crock of shit. So many are willing to force their morality onto others but refuse to believe that it applies to them. I hope he rots in jail. You know what happens to child predators in prison? Often times they get shanked. Criminals see them as the lowest of the low. Happy shanking ass wipe.

tags: Mark Foley is an asshole

Bank of America Sucks

You don't want to verify the validity of a check from a Bank of America account unless you want to risk spending the night in jail. Just ask Matthew Shinnick. While the Supreme Court has ruled in the past that there is no liability for reporting suspected crimes, I think there should be a point where the line is drawn. My question is why did they jump the gun? I think there is a point where you should have some liability. They could have gotten the whole story without forcing Mr. Shinnick to spend the night in jail and spending thousands of dollars just to clear his name. And I think they should pay for the legal costs on moral grounds even though they may not be legally liable. Clark Howard has taken up his cause. Go to his site to see what you can do to help. So far Clark's listeners have withdrawn over $22 million from BOA accounts.

Here is an except of the story from Clark's site. How the Bank of America blunder went down:
By now, you've probably heard the story of the San Francisco man who was arrested and jailed when he tried to verify the validity of a check at Bank of America branch. Clark found out about this story and talked with the man, Matthew Shinnick, who has spent about $14,000 in legal fees to clear his name. It all started when Shinnick posted two bicycles for sale on Craigslist and received a check from a man for more than the cost of the bicycles. He went into his bank to see if the check was legitimate and verify that there was money in the person's account. He was told it was a valid account and so he cashed the check. At that point, BOA employees called the police and Shinnick was arrested on fraud charges because the check was actually a phony. He had no idea that the real criminal had used the name of a legitimate company to fake a check. So, Matthew sat in the bank branch for hours while police figured out what to do and then spent the night in jail. Once he got out, he wanted to clear his name legally so the arrest would not come back to haunt him. He had to hire attorneys to do this and it cost him nearly $14,000. He then went to Bank of America and asked that the bank cover his fees because it was the bank's error. But so far BOA has refused. This kind of treatment sends the message that banks only care about their bottom line and nothing about their customers. It's unacceptable and it's time to fight back.

tags: Matthew Shinnick Bank of America Clark Howard

I hate Pizza [Updated]

Alright, I'll be a little bit more clear. I hate pizza places that have changing delivery boundaries. How can Conan's on 29th deliver to my house one week and not another? What kind of crap is that? I also hate Papa John's because they can't make a pizza with no cheese on half. What is the difference between cheese and other pizza toppings? It isn't like making pizza is like brain surgery or any thing. This evening MOTL and I had to take three different pizza places to task for not knowing where they deliver, changing where they deliver, and their inability to make a pizza without cheese on half. I suggest that if you want to let off some steam, you just call a pizza place that doesn't deliver to your house or try ordering a pizza without cheese on half from Papa Johns. You can get really angry and chew out some idiot stoner. Enjoy!

UPDATE:
Here is the response I got from Customer Service On Sep 29, 2006, at 9:32 PM, Consumer_Services@papajohns.com wrote:


Thanks for the great feedback! Your compliments have been forwarded onto
the appropriate people for review and I am sure they will enjoy them as
much as we did.
Thanks again and have a great day!

Sincerely,

Consumer Services Team

And this is my reply:

I'm not really sure why you thought that my complaint was a compliment. I find it interesting that my informing you of my terrible experience with Papa John's is enjoyable. This is just one more reason why I feel like your company should make some internal changes. I find it abhorrent that you find my displeasure with your service to be so fantastic.

Have a great day!

tags: Pizza Conans Papa Johns

Katrina, the neverending saga of destruction and corruption

On Monday night, MOTL and I were watching the Saints game. I am still baffled as to why they put Monday Night Football on a cable channel. But then again, I really don't care much about Monday Night Football (or professional football in general). But I digress. Anyway, there were all of these feel good comments about the symbolism of reopening the Superdome and how the Saints' victory was a metaphor for the recovery of New Orleans. For the most part I found it boring, but then little pieces of real information would slip out. It is real nice and all that the Saints are back in the Superdome, but if it was so important and profitable, why didn't Tom Benson pay for it? Why was FEMA money used? Why did they dedicate all of those man hours to rebuild a stadium when people don't have a place to live (I guess people can stay at the Superdome during away games)? And thank god that Hilton rushed everything so that they could provide the football players with a place to live (I guess they can't afford their own homes?). Even Spike Lee was talking about how the Superdome could save New Orleans. Are you kidding me? I lived in New Orleans for three years, I understand that tourism is a big part of the economy. But let's face the facts, the Quarter was basically untouched and how many people go to NO to see the "Aints"? I know I never went to see them when I lived there. The only time I went to the Superdome was to see the monster truck show. Honestly, that place should have been ripped down because it wasn't very nice before it got destroyed.

and in other news of sketchiness... State Farm is now suing two former employees for turning over evidence that it tried to avoid paying claims by manipulating engineering reports on homes damaged by Hurricane Katrina. I'm sure what they did was illegal, but what State Farm did was much worse. On the scale of justice do you illegally turn over information that proves more law breaking or do you sit back and watch the insurance companies rip people off and destroy lives?

tags: New Orleans Superdome Saints Tom Benson Katrina State Farm

The Most Honest Speach Ever Given By Bush

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RIP Don Walser

Now there was a man that could yodel. I just don't understand how Austin can be kept weird when all of the weirdos keep leaving us. I used to love to see Don Walser play. And he played gigs well after he could get around without a lot of help from his wife. That is a true musician. Playing for the love of the music even when it was obviously very difficult to even get to the show. Occasionally, he would autograph photos. I still have the one he gave to me. It reads: "To __________. Smile! The sunshine is good for your teeth! Love, Don Walser" The last time I saw him play was at a friend's wedding reception a few years ago. I'm glad I went to say howdy and to tell him how much I loved his music and that I still had the photo he signed for me. One of the band members pulled me aside and told me that he had seen him sign a lot of photos, but none of them ever had that message. That just makes it more special. Don, you were a bad ass!

tags: Don Walser Keep Austin Weird Yodel

Spain, you are the bane of fashion's existence

People are still bitching about Spain's new rules about models. What a novel idea that someone should be healthy to do their job (especially one that is based on body appearance). My favorite is the bitch in the US with some modeling agency that is whining about how this new rule excludes models that are naturally thin and gazelle like. There is nothing natural about being able to see someone's bones poking through their skin. I think the medical term for that is: Eat or die! Cocaine, cigarettes, coffee, and laxatives are not food groups. OK, I'm done for now...

Some things I learned today

There are a lot of cases of Polio in India. Apparently there is an urban legend that the vaccine is birth control that Westerners devised to stop the procreation of Muslims. That is a pretty sad statement about how we are viewed around the world.

Scarlett Johansson is not only happy with her curves, she would like to switch places with the President for the day. Anything would be better at this point. And I bet she would not have sent former commerce secretary Donald L. Evans to represent President Bush at Ann Richards' memorial. What an ass wipe. He could have at least sent someone that still works for him.

And Rachael Ray is annoying. Duh.

tags: Polio India Muslims Scarlett Johansson Bush Ann Richards Rachael Ray

just so you know

I don't feel like blogging. I'll get back to you.

Where is Homeland Security When You Need Them?

I mean it is obvious that the terrorists are now attacking Popeye by targeting his power source. They have hit us where we are most vulnerable, our spinach supply. Next thing you know, they are going to put Kryptonite in our water supply. Come on people! Get with it!

tags: Homeland Security Spinach Popeye Superman Kryptonite